"Actor: Dick Powell"

• 42nd Street | DVD | (01/06/2006) from £4.14   |  Saving you £9.85 (237.92%)   |  RRP £13.99

  Julian Marsh a successful Broadway director produces a new show inspite of his poor health. The money comes from a rich old man who is in love with the star of the show Dorothy Brock. But she doesn't reply his love because she is still in love with her old partner. At the night before the premiere Dorothy Brock breaks her ankle and one of the chorus girls Peggy Sawyer tries to take over her part. Featuring incredible dance choreography from the master Busby Berkeley

• Classic Musical Box Set | DVD | (04/09/2006) from £31.95   |  Saving you £18.04 (56.46%)   |  RRP £49.99

  An unmissable compendium of 8 classic musicals in one bumper DVD box set! Includes: 1. On The Avenue (Dir. Roy Del Ruth 1937) 2. Sun Valley Serenade (Dir. H. Bruce Humberstone 1941) 3. Daddy Long Legs (Dir. Jean Negulesco 1955) 4. The Gang's All Here (Dir. Busby Berkeley 1943) 5. Second Fiddle (Dir. Sidney Lanfield 1939) 6. Orchestra Wives (Dir. Archie Mayo 1952) 7. Dolly Sisters (Dir. Irvin Cummings 1945) 8. Pin Up Girl (Dir. H. Bruce Humberstone 1944)

• Johnny O'Clock (Standard Edition) | Blu Ray | (26/06/2023) from £9.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Starring Dick Powell (Murder, My Sweet) and Evelyn Keyes (Gone with the Wind), Johnny O'Clock is an exciting tale of gambling, double-crosses, love triangles... and murder! Johnny co-owns a casino with the crooked Guido, and has to dodge the advances of Nelle, Guido's wife. When a hat-check girl and her crooked cop boyfriend turn up dead, the police suspect Johnny, and he must fight to prove his innocence. Directed by Robert Rossen (The Hustler, Lilith), and with a supporting cast that includes Lee J Cobb (The Garment Jungle) and Nina Foch (Escape in the Fog), Johnny O'Clock is a thrilling film noir classic. Product Features 2K restoration Original mono soundtrack Audio commentary with filmmaker and film historian Jim Hemphill (2021) Not One Shall Die (1957, 30 mins): short film by the United Jewish Appeal, directed by David Lowell Rich and starring Guy Madison, Felicia Farr and Agnes Moorehead, made by the core crew of many Columbia noirs, including cinematographer Burnett Guffey, art director Cary Odell, editor Al Clark, set decorator Frank Tuttle, and composer Morris Stoloff Whoops, I'm an Indian! (1936, 18 mins): the casino business spells trouble for the Three Stooges Original theatrical trailer Image gallery: promotional and publicity materials New and improved English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing

• Farewell My Lovely | DVD | (12/02/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  They say crime doesn't pay. Private detective Phillip Marlowe knows better. The fat wad of folding money warming his breast pocket is the kind of thing that keeps him going through thick and thicker as he wades chin deep into a mystery involving a missing necklace and a missing hoodlum's moll named Velma. Sharply directed by Edward Dymytrk Murder My Sweet is film at its most noir creating a moody sense of a world that never plays on the level. Casting against type Dick Powell puts sunny crooner roles behind him dishing hardboiled patter and wearing five-going-on-six-o'clock stubble so well that source author Raymond Chandler called Powell his favorite screen Marlowe. ""I'm just a small businessman in a very messy business "" the PI observes. With wit and trendsetting style to burn it's never business as usual.

• Abbott And Costello - Hold That Ghost/In The Navy | DVD | (28/08/2006) from £9.98   |  Saving you £6.01 (60.22%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Hold That Ghost: Two bumbling service station attendants are left as the sole beneficiaries in a gangster's will. Their trip to claim their fortune is sidetracked when they are stranded in a haunted house along with several other strangers. In The Navy: Russ Raymond America's number one crooner disappears and joins the Navy under the name Tommy Halstead. Dorothy Roberts a magazine journalist is intent on finding out what happened to Russ and she tries everything sh

• Station West | DVD | (29/07/2013) from £20.00   |  Saving you £-7.01 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Out in the Western territories, someone is raiding the gold shipments heading back east. In the last hold up, two soldierswere killed and the army needs answers - fast.Everything seems to point to the beautiful local heiress Charlie (Jane Greer) and her right hand man, Prince (GordonOliver). Charlie owns the local gambling joint. She owns the town stores, the local sawmill - and she owns the law too.Then a mysterious stranger - Haven (Dick Powell) - rides into town. Suddenly, he's asking too many questions, pickingtoo many fights and attracting all kinds of trouble...

• On The Avenue | DVD | (26/02/2007) from £7.04   |  Saving you £5.95 (84.52%)   |  RRP £12.99

  A new Broadway show starring Gary Blake shamelessly lampoons the rich Carraway family. To get her own back daughter Mimi sets out to ensnare Blake but the courtship is soon for real to the annoyance of his co-star hoofing chanteuese Mona Merrick.

• It Happened Tomorrow | DVD | (19/09/2011) from £17.53   |  Saving you £-4.54 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Larry Stevens (Dick Powell) is an ambitious newspaper reporter in the late nineteenth century gaslight era of big city America. Eager to scoop his competitors, Stevens wishes that he could know the news before it happens. When a mysterious old man grants Stevens that power he advises the ambitious reporter against using it. But when Stevens is able to predict what happens twenty-four hours in advance by reading the next day's paper in advance, he becomes unstoppable: scooping all the other papers, beating the police to big crimes and picking sure-fire winners at the race track. Unstoppable that is, until he learns of his own death tomorrow...

• Cornered | DVD | (22/08/2011) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  The war's over but ex-POW Lt. Lawrence Gerard (Dick Powell) has a score to settle and he doesn't mean to do things by the book. His bride was in the French resistance; she was one of fifty freedom fighters murdered by shadowy Vichy collaborator Marcel Jarnac. People tell him that Jarnac's dead but Gerard doesn't buy it. He tracks Jarnac's widow to Argentina and discovers that his quarry is not only still very much alive but has got some powerful - and dangerous - guardian angels. Gerard's mission is more urgent than ever - but who can he trust?

• Christmas In July | DVD | (05/05/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

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• Gold Diggers of 1933 | Blu Ray | (08/02/2022) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• On the Avenue | DVD | (24/09/2012) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  A new Broadway show starring Gary Blake shamelessly lampoons the rich Carraway family. To get her own back, daughter Mimi sets out to ensnare Blake, but the courtship is soon for real, to the annoyance of his co-star, hoofing chanteuese Mona Merrick.